Summary as passed:(all summaries)Regret over 1959 school closures. Describes the events in Prince Edward County
of the 1950s following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of
Education declaring segregated systems of public education to be "inherently
unequal" and expresses the General Assembly's profound regret over the
1959-1964 closing of the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia.
This resolution notes the 50th anniversary in 2004 of the Brown v. Board of
Education decision and urges the people of Virginia to celebrate this
anniversary by becoming knowledgeable of the benefits and fairness of equality
and the past history of the massive resistance movement, in the belief that a
more educated, enlightened, and tolerant population will learn from history and
will reject absolutely any such discriminatory practices in the future.
Full text:01/08/03 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/07/03 033847624pdf02/22/03 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ613ER)pdf